Mary Baranovich, left, and Beverly Sevcik are the lead couple in a court battle challenging the voter-approved state constitutional amendment defining Nevada's marriage law prohibiting same-sex marriages. The couple talk from their home in Carson City on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (Cathleen Allison/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

By SEAN WHALEYLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

CARSON CITY – The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals set oral arguments in Nevada’s same-sex marriage ban for April 9 in San Francisco but later postponed the case to some as yet unidentified future date.

The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which reported the scheduling change, is challenging the definition, placed in the state constitution by voters in 2002, on behalf of eight same-sex couples.

In November 2012 Judge Robert C. Jones upheld Nevada’s prohibition on same-sex marriage, finding that it does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment.

The case is Sevcik v. Sandoval.

Gov. Brian Sandoval and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto are no longer defending Nevada’s ban. The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage, the group that put the ban into the state constitution in a vote in 2002, is defending Nevada’s definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.

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